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On his show Thursday night, Tucker Carlson responded to criticism of Montana special election winner Greg Gianforte by arguing that, while Gianforte’s attack on a reporter was unacceptable, leftist political violence is more noteworthy than violence from the right:
[L]et’s not lie to ourselves, or more precisely, don’t let the people in charge lie to us. America does face a threat of political violence. It does not come, by and large from baby boomer evangelicals in Montana. Nor does it come from President Trump, whatever his flaws. The threat today comes from the progressive left and its growing enthusiasm for force as a political tool.
Carlson then segued directly into a segment furthering his evidently still-running feud with Teen Vogue’s Lauren Duca, towards whom he’d “lost control” during an appearance on his show in December. (The issue at the time was Duca tweeting that critics shouldn’t let Ivanka Trump “off the hook because she looks like she smells good.”)
Duca, Carlson pointed out on Thursday, had tweeted an image of a crashing plane with the caption “Cute pic of Trump getting tired of winning.” Carlson interpreted this as Duca “fantasizing about the deaths of her political enemies.” “The left has gone insane,” he said.
In other news:
The Daily Wire and RedState ran posts about a study from researchers at Brunel University allegedly claiming that physically weaker men are more likely to support liberal or socialist policies. RedState’s Teri Christoph:
One need not look further than Silicon Valley to see this phenomenon at play. Take Mark Zuckerberg, for instance, who’s hardly a Tim Tebow-like stud. He is successful in today’s world because his brains, not his biceps, protect him from physically superior men. Like Tim Tebow.
The Washington Free Beacon and the Daily Caller ran posts about Hillary Clinton’s coughing during her commencement address at Wellesley on Friday. The Free Beacon’s post called her cough “a familiar problem from the campaign trail” while the Daily Caller noted that “she credited her croaky delivery to allergies rather than emotions.”
At Heat Street, Jillian Kay Melchior noted that students at the center of Yale’s 2015 Halloween costume controversy are graduating with awards. “A new class of social-justice warriors is graduating from Yale—and to celebrate, the university honored two students who led a Halloween witch hunt against administrator Erika Christakis in Fall 2015,” she wrote. “Yale has awarded its Nakanishi Prize—given for academic achievement and racial activism—to Alexandra Zina Barlowe and Abdul-Razak Zachariah, graduating seniors who were ‘two of Yale’s most prominent Christakis critics,’ the Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman reports.”
PJ Media’s Tom Knighton alerted readers to a class called “Abolition of Whiteness” being taught at Hunter College by Gender Studies Professor Jennifer Gaboury. “Gaboury, who is white, doesn’t seem to understand that ‘abolishing’ whiteness is going to involve, you know, genocide,” he wrote. “Violence, bigotry, fascism, everything evil you can think of is in style now on college campuses.”
